Eddie The Eagle Flashcards
What kind of shot is this?
How does it show Eddie’s grit?
POINT OF VIEW, CLOSE UP SHOT of Eddie’s hand holding the stopwatch.
The POINT OF VIEW SHOT shows us we are seeing the world how Eddie sees it. The CLOSE UP SHOT tells us that Eddie has a single-minded focus on his goals and is not distracted by other things.
What kind of shot is this? What is the angle?
What do the shot and angle reveal about Eddie’s character?
A CLOSE UP SHOT of Eddie’s face as he holds his breath in the bath from an AERIAL ANGLE.
An AERIAL ANGLE is often used to show vulnerability or powerlessness. It shows that Eddie not physically powerful and is unlikely to become an athlete. It also makes it seem as though he is powerless to achieve his dreams.
What kind of shot is this? What kind of lighting is used?
What do they reveal about Eddie’s character?
A LONG SHOT of Eddie standing in the bathtub with LOW-KEY LIGHTING.
The LONG SHOT shows how small Eddie is in relation to his surroundings. It emphasises to us how he is small, physically weak and therefore unlikely to become an athlete.
Since bright light is usually symbolic of hope, the LOW-KEY LIGHTING symbolises how there is little hope in Eddie’s Olympic dreams.
What kind of shot is this? What kind of soundtrack is used?
What does it reveal about Eddie’s character?
A CLOSE UP shot of Eddie’s leg brace as he goes down the stairs, with a NON-DIEGETIC SOUNDTRACK of the squeak of the leg brace.
The CLOSE UP and NON-DIEGETIC SOUND both draw our attention to the leg brace. This reveals that Eddie is likely to face obstacles in his dreams of becoming an Olympic athlete, since he does not have the kind of athletic ability that most athletes would have.
Where is Eddie going? What is the lighting used here?
What does it show about his Olympic Dreams?
Eddie is going ‘to hold my breath at the Olympics.’
The lighting is LOW-KEY LIGHTING. Since bright light usually symbolises hope, the fact that the lighting is low-key reveals that there is little hope that he will ever reach his Olympic goals.
What kind of SHOT is this? What does it reveal about Eddie’s character?
The shot is a CLOSE UP of some coffee mug stains that look like the Olympic logo.
Since coffee stains are hard to wash out of fabric, it shows how Eddie’s Olympic dreams won’t simply be ‘washed away’.
What is the name of the editing technique where a series of shots are seen in quick succession?
What do these shots show us about Eddie?
The editing technique is MONTAGE.
The MONTAGE shows Eddie failing over and over again. It reveals how Eddie is undeterred by failure and persists in his goals, even when he suffers painfully. He is a character with plenty of ‘grit’.
